To all 5970 owners - post a photo of your setup

[mikeyhd]

It seems everyone's pretty sure it won't fit in my case.


But I will be posting pics as soon as I find a 5970 in stock to buy.

My husband's got a 'scissors' which cuts up metal. I'm pretty sure I can do the job with that.
Perhaps not neat (given my patience and disposition) but it'll work, it has to work

not so, everything is possible, you have to be ingenious about it, that all

 

[mikeyhd]

if you look closely with this picture, notice where the card end (near the sata connector)

I have a 10.5 inch card and it's end at about the same place, which lead to think that the 5970 is about 12 inch.

the production card is 12.5 inch according to hardocp http://www.rage3d.com/BOARD/showthread.php?p=1336088485

maybe case cutting won't be needed because on the XFX web it list the 5970 at 12 inch, you have 12.1 inch, I just it just flush in barely

but this is a longer 5970, it's way past the sata connection point, unless the motherboard is not the same length or somethings I cannot think of

 

[Jakethesnake011]

The EVGA classified is a longer motherboard, it follows EATX form factor, not the standard 11.5" it's more like 13" wide. Cards looks nice what brand?

 

[MarcusFoX]

Calling wizzard... how are you guys flashing these.... I see 3dguru just did a review were there overcomming the overdrive limit sowehow?? the only way I know how to do this is through a soft mod flash, when I did this to one of mine today with the RBE v1.22 it brick the thing completely, I had the flies backed up so no biggie.

let me know if anyone knows anything.

 

[a_ump]

erm, i thought i'd read that the HD 5970 wasn't going to be limited by overdrive? coulda sworn i'd seen that in one of the pics posted in the HD 58XX discussion thread when we were all still looking for rumors on the HD 5970.

 

[Binge]

erm, i thought i'd read that the HD 5970 wasn't going to be limited by overdrive? coulda sworn i'd seen that in one of the pics posted in the HD 58XX discussion thread when we were all still looking for rumors on the HD 5970.

You mean the thermal limit or CCC?

 

[MarcusFoX]

erm, i thought i'd read that the HD 5970 wasn't going to be limited by overdrive? coulda sworn i'd seen that in one of the pics posted in the HD 58XX discussion thread when we were all still looking for rumors on the HD 5970.

im not sure what you seen... the 3 I have are all limited... ive looked at the bios in RBE and there all limited to 800 core 1000 memory i then overdrive section. So im pritty sure they are overdrive limited... and ill need RBE or some kinda of Bios editor to unlock the power on these puppy's.

 

[erocker]

Have you tried AMD GPU Tool for clock adjustment and the MSI Afterburner tool for fan control?

 

[MarcusFoX]

Have you tried AMD GPU Tool for clock adjustment and the MSI Afterburner tool for fan control?

yah Ive got the AMD ati Voltage tool... and the MSI after burner tool when I trying to bring the core over 800mhz on the after burner tool it shoves the dialback down to 800 or back to 725... so im pritty sure we need a bios editior here boys do you anything with these cards.

guys at RBE got some work to do for sure... I already tryed flashing and editing a bios with rbe1.22 dont be fooled it doesnt work.. I wouldnt wanna see anyone else flash there card and get stuck with a bricked card.

dont get me wrong the cards can be flashed with the stock bios.. they cant be edited or changed in anyway, possibly if one of you guys that are talking to sapphire could you ask then what there using the edit the bios code to do these fixes for these new bioses.

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

That gave me a good laugh, I don't think I know anyone that wouldn't see what it was straight away XD

i thought wizz was just bragging he's that rich he could hang one on the wall with 2 cds undeneath then i got it

 

[wolf]

damn that is one longass card, good things its the fastest in the world at the moment, because as soon as something is faster and shorter people will probably stop buying it...

enough negativity, I say dremel your case and never look back.

 

[MarcusFoX]

any news or anyone now of a bios editor program for these cards yet?

 

[cowie]

marcus are you sure you cant clock over 800? me and a few others are getting to set over 800 like said use msi ab.
it may just be the card can not clock well at stock volts turn the fan up and add volts if you wish over 800np in no time
d/l
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
forum for msi ab issues here
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=55
good luck


ot
i'll add pics soon one of my cards is fubar so i got pissed and did not take pics

 

[poo417]

Got some pics of my slightly untidy rig. The photos with the measuring tape are slightly dodgy the computer was running at the time and i was using the camera with one hand!!

Cheers

 

[Black Panther]

http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/poo417/Picture1015.jpg

So the card's just exactly 12 inches long I swear I read somewhere it was over 13" but I must have been confused.

PS the sound card here looks exactly like mine... do you have an x-fi xtreme music?

 

[mikeyhd]

yep it's 12 inch as confirmed by XFX 5970 spec too

 

[poo417]

So the card's just exactly 12 inches long I swear I read somewhere it was over 13" but I must have been confused.

PS the sound card here looks exactly like mine... do you have an x-fi xtreme music?

The red bits add a couple of mm onto the 12" as they come to a slight point. It is indeed an x-fi xtreme music. I think the 13" thing came from the alienbabel site with the tech demo card. I am sure that's where I had read it as well.

 

[Marineborn]

Hows everyones e-penis's doing now??

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c333/AMphoto_1/wow5970s2.jpg

wow golly jee marcusfox, that name looks familiar, i think i just might know you. HAHAHAHA very nice setup btw

 

[W1zzard]

my review which i hope all of you have read says "The exact length of the card is 31 cm (from slot cover to end of fan)."

 

[Black Panther]

my review which i hope all of you have read says "The exact length of the card is 31 cm (from slot cover to end of fan)."

Read it of course. Then I read most of what google churned up.
Perhaps that's what confused me.
Or perhaps I confused the 1 and the 3 in 31cm and 13 inches...

 

[W1zzard]

Or perhaps I confused the 1 and the 3 in 31cm and 13 inches...

or maybe you are better off with an xbox ?

 

[Black Panther]

or maybe you are better off with an xbox ?

No thanks. Never owned a console my whole life and never plan to.

 

[poo417]

or maybe you are better off with an xbox ?

OOO that's going to hurt!! Evil WIzzard

 

[MarcusFoX]

Cowie im positive... you have a retail card dont you... probly has looser overdrive limits than mine.. I know some of these cards excluding some like the asus cards which have a an overdrive cap of like 950 core or higher and 1200 on the memory....Also its not the fact the card wont overclock it clocks like crazy... but as soon as I go anything over 800 with afterburner it shuve the bar in the program right back to 725.. which tells me this card has a bios Over drive limit on it. Ive ran into this before on 4870x2's as we'll so I have some pritty good expeiance in this kinda thing.

now like I was saying before the Asus bios is much looser with these limits there for can clock much higher out of the box... now with a bios tweaking program like RBE anyone can oc one of these even if it an es sample or has a really tight bios.

when you guys get a chance open rbe... with ur current bios on your card, spiecally the person I seen in here with the asus card??? tell me what your Overdrive limit is. Some have 800 like me... I opened those new Sapphire bios there releasing to fix the fan issue and its 850 for those cards???... so every manufacture seems to be different.

let me know you finidings

marcus are you sure you cant clock over 800? me and a few others are getting to set over 800 like said use msi ab.
it may just be the card can not clock well at stock volts turn the fan up and add volts if you wish over 800np in no time
d/l
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
forum for msi ab issues here
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=55
good luck


ot
i'll add pics soon one of my cards is fubar so i got pissed and did not take pics

 

[MarcusFoX]

wow golly jee marcusfox, that name looks familiar, i think i just might know you. HAHAHAHA very nice setup btw

whats going on Marine.... havent talk to you in a good while man, hows things been goin